All right, this is probably my last Indie Maker update specifically for Indie.am. This will be my Indie Maker update in general then. So I've basically completed all the features I wanted to complete ...
Indie.am Update for Monday Recent Fixes and Improvements RSS Feed Fixes I've just published some fixes to the RSS feed. Years ago, I hardcoded 2021 as the year, which caused issues with all subsequent...
Testing the NDAM Progressive Web App on Android Hey, this is a test of posts that I'm creating using the Android version of the NDAM Progressive Web App. Let's see if it works.
Understanding Adobe Firefly: The Future of Generative AI What is Adobe Firefly? Adobe Firefly is a generative AI model that Adobe has been developing for years. In collaboration with Nvidia, Adobe has...
My Journey with AI Artwork Generation In January, I found myself completely immersed in building an app centered around AI artwork generation. I dedicated about two weeks to this project, diving deep ...
Adobe's Acquisition of Figma: A Game-Changer? The Big News Adobe recently announced its acquisition of Figma for a staggering $20 billion, split evenly between cash and stock. This deal doubles Figma'...
Choosing the Right Marketing Platform for Your Business Every founder, at some point, must decide on their marketing platform—the medium through which they will reach their customers. There are severa...
The Coming Boom in Small Startups: Disrupting the Tech Giants We are on the precipice of a boom in hacking by small startups, disrupting medium to large enterprises and established tech companies, esp...
Embracing Contrarianism: A Path to Success There's an idea that I can borrow from the startup community, particularly from the Y Combinator crowd, and that's the concept of contrarianism and doomerism...
Understanding Chargebacks Chargebacks can be a significant indicator that your User Interface (UI) or support process may not be meeting user expectations. What Are Chargebacks? Chargebacks occur whe...
The Challenges of Generic Domain Names and Trademarks I've been thinking a lot about Damon's company and a recent experience with a domain auction that got me pondering the complexities of generic dom...
Analyzing the Format of the January 6 Hearings The format of the January 6 hearings is quite intriguing. The use of videos suggests that the production is crafted with a prime-time audience in mind. T...
Exploring the JS HTTP Virtual File System with Arcade Games Data In this follow-up to the JS HTTP virtual file system post, I experimented with a new website using a different data set. This time, I u...
Exploring SQL.js HTTP VFS: A Journey in Remote Database Querying I've been experimenting with SQL.js HTTP VFS for a few months now. Essentially, this is a SQLite engine compiled into WebAssembly that ...
AirPods Max: Day One Review I've been using the AirPods Pro pretty much since they came out, and they are probably my favorite pair of headphones ever. I've tried higher quality headphones, including ...
How I Broke My Amazon Account: A Tale of Two Addresses Managing multiple addresses on Amazon can be a tricky business, especially when your living situation requires a bit of creativity. Here's how I ...
Myocart Live Home Circuit: A Delightful Innovation Myocart Live Home Circuit is easily one of the most delightful and creative products created in the last two years. It features a real-life Mario Kar...
Should Reddit Clone Clubhouse? The Question Should Reddit clone Clubhouse? It's a question worth considering. Reddit is reportedly planning to integrate a Clubhouse-like feature into its mobile app. T...
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: A Review Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have been well ported, and thankfully, they aren't plagued by bugs. The gameplay is smooth, but there ...
The Curious Case of Stadia: Potential and Pitfalls Stadia is a fascinating yet somewhat disappointing product from a consumer perspective. I've been exploring it through a free trial, and the performa...
The Curious Case of My Delayed TV Delivery My TV delivery saga began with an unexpected twist. The TV was supposed to arrive on time, but it reached Portland a day earlier than scheduled. This early a...
The Era of Shameless Cloning in Tech In recent years, we've witnessed a trend in the tech industry that raises eyebrows: the shameless cloning of successful products. It started with stories, then mov...
The Untold Story of United Airlines Flight 93 On September 11, 2001, at 8:00 AM, United Airlines Flight 93 was scheduled to depart from Newark International Airport. However, after just a one-minute d...
Updating My App for TestFlight I recently undertook the task of updating my app to rebuild and re-deploy it to TestFlight. Following the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I downloaded the beta v...
Vaccine Tourism in Guam: A New Initiative for American Expats in Asia Introduction A few weeks ago, Guam launched an intriguing program aimed at promoting vaccine tourism specifically for American exp...
Taiwan's Current Lockdown Situation Taiwan is currently under a Level 3+ lockdown, particularly affecting Taipei and other major cities. Despite meeting the criteria for a Level 4 lockdown, authoritie...
Taiwan's Pre-Lockdown Measures Amid Rising Covid Cases Taiwan recently entered a pre-lockdown phase following a significant increase in Covid-19 cases. On the day before the announcement, 160 new case...
Apple is About to Transform Podcasting: Why It Might Be a Good Thing Yesterday, during the Apple event, some significant changes were announced regarding the way podcasts function within the iOS ecosy...
Taiwan's Covid Press Conference Highlights Today's Covid press conference in Taiwan provided some intriguing insights. The health minister shared updates on the current Covid situation, expressing con...
My Journey with Big Cloud: Overcoming Initial Hurdles Introduction In the past couple of weeks, I've had an intriguing experience with Big Cloud. It feels like I've come full circle, from initial chal...
Reflections on My Founder Journey I'm currently walking through a park on my way home, and I felt like sharing some thoughts about my journey as a founder. This year, I've dedicated a lot of time to v...
Audio Log Introduction Hey, this is James. I maintain an audio log on indie.am, and today, I wanted to try something new by posting an audio log on BitClout. A New Platform This is the first audio lo...
Developing Deep Expertise: A New Perspective on Innovation It's fascinating how individuals develop deep expertise or think profoundly about a specific aspect of the Internet, a product, a company, or...
The Rise of Twitter DMs: Replacing Slack in 2021 Introduction I have this theory that Twitter DMs and your social graph on Twitter are replacing Slack in 2021. If you think of Slack or Discord as your...
The Evolution of Startup Advice: Competitors and Copycats When Paul Graham wrote his first essays, the prevailing advice for startups was clear: don't worry about your competitors coming along and cop...
The Joy of a New MacBook: A Fresh Start One of the greatest perks of purchasing a new MacBook is the opportunity to start fresh. It's like declaring bankruptcy on all the clutter that has accumulated ...
Donkey Kong vs. Iguana: A Surprisingly Great Movie Wow, the Donkey Kong vs. Iguana movie was actually really impressive! Congratulations to everyone involved! A Boost for HBO Max All my friends who us...
YouTube Shorts: A TikTok Clone in the Making It's happening—YouTube is finally cloning TikTok with their new beta product called Shorts. However, the user interface (UI) for Shorts is, well, not great...
The Real Reason Behind Building the A.M. App I wasn't sure where to share this, so I decided to make it an audio blog post. I realized I've never really discussed the true motivation behind creating t...
Integrating Plausible.io Analytics into a Change Log I recently completed the integration of Plausible.io analytics into a change log. The idea behind this is to simplify the process by using Plausibl...
Indie Maker Update Here's my Indie maker update! I've been working on changelog.life pretty much nonstop for the past week. I've been playing around with it on and off for the week before that, making...
What Do You Call Your Untitled Draft in Figma? Hey designers, let's talk about that one Figma file we all have. You know the one—your untitled draft. It's like a digital junk drawer. It's where you go...
Starting seeing some traffic to an interesting thread on Twitter I participated in, so I thought I would share a few stories about SaaS billing, specifically for B2B companies. The big thing I learned...
I'M prototyping something new today. Basically, I want my product to change log to live on Twitter. It might be a necessity to have a page link to your site where or an in bedded with it, where you ca...
So I'm a frontend developer in 2021, over 10 years of experience building websites - since I don't know 2005, 2006, 2007, and I still use bootstrap and people ask me sometimes, you know, why I still u...
So I took a break this week and built a thing called space. He plays Pokémon, it's a playable, Pokémon red instants. You can play from my space her profile. This is inspired by Twitter plays Pokémon b...
So I got an invite to host rooms on Twitter spaces are completed on boarding. Yesterday I tried things out. I want to share my initial impressions of the app. I think I've been in for five large rooms...
Apple sounds: Loading, Funk, basso, sosumi, logged in, submarine, mail sent, new mail, put trash, empty trash, invitation, FaceTime ringer, FaceTime accepted, FaceTime hang up, AirPods connected, AirP...
American Airlines Confirms UFO Contact Over New Mexico American Airlines has confirmed an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO) over New Mexico. The incident occurred on Sunday as the air...
So now, every time that you record a new audio log, the transcriptions are turned into subtitles, which are applied in real time to the playback in the app. But I also use the subtitle files to genera...
Understanding the 502 Proxy Error What is a 502 Proxy Error? A 502 Proxy Error occurs when a proxy server receives an invalid response from an upstream server. This error indicates that the proxy serv...
So here's my indie maker update today, I'm not doing anything really interesting, I'm just doing something for fun. I am doing a transcription point map for the transcriptions that come from the iOS a...
Ok, here's my big in the a.m. update for the day. I'Ve updated the website that you get automatically the default theme middle of improvements to that completely rebuild it from scratch, so that it wo...
The Twitter plays Pokémon game finally completed today after six weeks of continuous play, the avatar updated every 15 seconds when somebody commented up down, left right AB, select or start on a spec...
Oh, this sucks Twitter plays Pokémon was just taken off-line, I'm not sure if it was like a server scaling issue or Twitter or Nintendo took the soft line, but before the game actually ended and peopl...
So I spent a full day, probably making icons and making an icon picture that works on iOS 13+ in Cordova. It was a really interesting process. I learned a lot from it. It was all kicked off, because a...
So I spent basically all day playing around with audio and beds in Twitter. I initially thought that it wouldn't work, but it turned out that was just the documentation was pretty bad and I was pretty...
Here'S my Indie make her update for Monday February 15, so I spent a good bit of time yesterday tweaking the audio encoding pipeline. I thought about it for a while, and I just turned up the audio qua...
I have officially switched from Sketch to Figma: but it's not what you think, I'm not abandoning Sketch, but the other day when I tried installing Sketch on my new M1 Mac, I ran into a maintenance win...
I woke up this morning with about four hours of sleep. I'Ve got a funny alert on my phone or static city and server was returning errors strange errors. Sometimes it was working. Sometimes it wasn't. ...
So here's my update for Wednesday February 10 just got test flight approved for public access, which means I can give people a link to opt into the TestFlight instead of having to invite them as a use...
Mark Andriessen and Ben Horowitz just hosted a room on clubhouse, and I thought I would recap a few interesting things that came up. One of the most interesting topics that Mark brought up was just th...
A friend of mine, Brian Hall, is about to launch on product on a tool he created called cofounder question cards. It'S basically a website you go to, and it's great questions that you can ask your pot...
So I'm gonna kick off at the register talk about audio best social networks in general I am this all happened inside of the in the a.m. app feel free to chime in if you have any thoughts on the subjec...
It'S been crazy following the uptake in Mandarin speaking users in the clubhouse up over the last couple of weeks, and so I remember when I first went to Clubhouse the only Mandarin speakers. There we...
So I just got out of the clubhouse room, with Jason Bloom from blue Mounds and BJ Novak, and they were talking for a while about streaming media and the existing film industry, television, industry an...
So today, I'm working on what I think will become the core feature of this app in that thread and conversations. I'Ve just started experimenting with us a couple of days ago, but basically the idea is...
Here is my Andy make her check in for Thursday, February 4 haven't worked on the app for a few days I've been minor bug fixes but I got a lot done today and I basically just worked on it all day and i...
Right, I want to try a new post format for this time. I'M sharing a meme with a very short audio clip
Fingers crossed if this works it'll be really awesome but I've just completed my first attempt at transcribing audio as it's recorded and uploading it with every post one in the a.m.
